The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-05-18
New Publications.

OUR LITTLE MEN AND WOMEN for May is
spring-like in its table of contents and its
pictures and interesting sketches and bits
of verse will attract and amuse its large
number Of juvenile readers. ID. Lothrop Co.,
publishers. Boston.
THE PANsY for May is as charming COM
panion for the little folks as ever. Story and
picture, prettily told and clearly portrayed,
fill page after page and the children can be
entertained by the hour. The pranks and
capers of youngsters, cute stories about
dolls and animals, and other things in which
juveniles are interested combine to make
delightful number of this favorte childrens
magazine. ID. Lothrop Co., publishers
AMERICAN ART for May comes to us again
full of interesting gossip and suggestions
concerning art in general. Its contents in
clude 60 Prize Fund and Society Exhibit
tions," A Retrospective Review" " The
Chicago Art Institute, Comment and Re-
view, p" Monthly Record of Art " Ameri-
can Home Decoration" Miscellaneous
Topics and Art Notes. The illustrations
are profuse as ever and their themes varied
and entertaining. Published at 179 fremont
street, Boston.
STORIES OF GREAT MEN. By Faye Hun
tington. Illustrated. Boston ID. Lothrop
Company Price sixty cents. A companion
and fulflls like requirements. 1t is made
of twenty-six brief biographies of remark
able men of ancient and modern times.
Although the sketches are necessarily short,
they contain the salient points in the his
tory of each, and give in nutshell what
might be expanded into a volume. The il
Illustrations are many and good.
STORIES OF REMARKABLE WOMEN. By
Faye Huntington. Illustrated. Boston:
ID. Lothrop Company. Price sixty cents.
In the twenty-five brief sketches which
make up this little volume the author has
packed good deal of pleasant information
about well-known women, among them
Alice and Phoebe Cary, Miss Milford, Mar
garet Fuller, Harriet Newell, Mrs. Alden
C' Pansy y, Dorothea Dix, Miss Frances E..
Willard and others. No attempt is made
to be exhaustive, but just enough is given
to furnish fair idea of what has been ac-
complished by each and to arouse an inter-
est which will lead to further inquiry and
investigation
TIcKNoR's PAPER SERIES is happy idea
of the publishers, and will be very accepta-
BILE to all readers during the summer that is
now so close upon us. 1t includes number
of the most famous and successful of the
novels of the past five years. They are
handsome and shapely volumes, substan-
TALLY bound in decorated heavy paper
covers. The series for 1887 will include
thirteen volumes, appearing one each week
during May, June and July. The retail
price is fifty cents each volume, remark
ably low price for such handsomely printed
and made-up copyright books. The initial
number of the series is the famous and
widely-approved novel, "The Story of
Margaret Kent" The wonderful success of
this book is shown by the fact that within
less than two years it has run through ten
editions. Ticknor & Co., Boston.
The May number of The Cosmopolitan,
the last but one that will be published in
Rochester before its removal to New York
city, opens with a striking and interesting
dialect story, entitled, DE New Boss" by
Mary Rose Floyd. 1t contains the second
and last part of that original and powerful
story by c. Van Nevelt entitled The
Baron Won Goldstetten." THE May Even
ing " is beautiful little story by Gogol, the
great Russian novelist. The third of Emile
billiards entertaining and valuable illus
trated articles on I" Life Beneath the Cres-
cent" is even more interesting than its
predecessors. "A Fracas with Grizzly
Bears" by William T. Hornaday, is a
sprightly and humorous sketch of very
thrilling adventure in the West. Professor
Herbert futile of Cornell University con-
tributes an entertaining article on "The
Bridal Journey of Catherine the Great"
In the Young Folks Department there is a
very pathetic story by Edmondo de Amicis.
The third part of Katharine b. Foot's de-
lightful story. entitled "The Little Reform
ers, is given.
THE May Wide A1Cake opens with a bril-
liant frontispiece, "Springtime," by E. S.
Tucker. The whole number is ensphered
in spring light and air-what with Mrs.
Blake's " A Fancy in Triolets," Clinton
Scollard's A Daffodil" Mrs. Clara Doty
Bates " Wake Robin" Mrs. Thomas Ser
jeant Perry's " Dandelions," Mrs. A. d. 7.
Whitney's Bird-Talk," Marion Douglass
"Arbutus," Mr.. Barnes Spring Shower,
and Miss Watson's very funny " A Success
full Gardener The pictorial interest cen
ters in Miss Eleanor Lewis's article, " A
Select Company" No ". OF the Famous
Pets series, which gives engravings of Mrs
Harriet Beecher Stoves pet dogs - Punch u
and Missy" one of herself in her early
womanhood, Miss Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
" Daniel Deronda," and full length en-.
craving of Mrs. Jane Welsh Carlyle and
her famous dog, " Nero" The serials
"Romulus and Remus and " Montezuma' s
Gold Mines close in this number, to give
place to stories by Charles Egbert Craddock
and Mrs. Catherwood. ID. Lothrop Co.. pub